Saturday, March 5, 2016

From
Michigan to Louisiana to California on Friday, rank-and-file
Republicans expressed mystification, dismissal and contempt over the
instructions that their party’s most high-profile leaders were urgently
handing down to them: Reject and defeat Donald J. Trump.

Their angry reactions, in the 24 hours since Mitt Romney and John McCain
urged millions of voters to cooperate in a grand strategy to undermine
Mr. Trump’s candidacy, have captured the seemingly inexorable force of a
movement that still puzzles the Republican elite and now threatens to
unravel the party they hold dear.

In
interviews, even lifelong Republicans who cast a ballot for Mr. Romney
four years ago rebelled against his message and plan. “I personally am
disgusted by it — I think it’s disgraceful,” said Lola Butler, 71, a
retiree from Mandeville, La., who voted for Mr. Romney in 2012. “You’re
telling me who to vote for and who not to vote for? Please.”

“It is ironic that the proliferation of guns in the hands of the
bureaucrats is pushed by the antigun fanatics who hate the Second
Amendment and would disarm every law-abiding American citizen,” the
Texas Congressman continued. “Yes, we need gun control. We need to
disarm our bureaucrats, then abolish the agencies. If government
bureaucrats like guns that much, let them seek work with the NRA.”

Paul then warned, “Force and intimidation are the tools of tyrants.
Intimidation with government guns, the threat of imprisonment, and the
fear of harassment by government agents puts fear into the hearts of
millions of Americans.”

“You have a movement going on like we haven’t seen, they say ever in
our country,” GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told a sea of
sign waving supporters from an airport hanger in New Orleans, Louisiana
on the eve of the state’s presidential primary election.

Trump went on to claim future victories
in states like Virginia, Florida, Ohio, and Michigan — Ohio and Florida
being particularly notable as the home states of rival candidates Gov.
John Kasich and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) won his home state of Texas in the deluge of Super Tuesday contests.

A personal note from Peter Ticktin who knows the guy from high school:

As a law firm, we at The Ticktin Law Group do not like to get involved
in politics. As soon as we endorse one side, we risk alienating
everyone on the other side. Also, our lawyers and staff are,
themselves, on both sides. Politics is not our game. However, Justice
is!

If you saw a guy get publicly smeared, and you knew him well
from the days you were friends and seniors together in high school, if
you knew him to be a decent and honest man, would you want to say
something? This is why I need to share what I know.

I was
aghast at watching last night's debate. It was a set-up. The
moderators, Cruz, and Rubio were all like little alligators trying to
take a bite out of Trump. Yes, Donald Trump has had some failures, but
he has been exceedingly successful. None of this came out. Instead,
there was a general attack. Rubio simply makes up lies. He pretends
that Trump has small hands and makes fun of him for something which
isn't even real. He pretends that Donald wets his pants, and makes fun
of him, as though it was true, and then he calls Donald Trump a "Bully."

I am not suggesting that you should vote or not vote for anyone. I just need to defend a former friend who is being smeared.

Like Donald Trump, I attended New York Military Academy ("NYMA") for
high school. In fact, in our senior year, together, Donald was my
captain, and I was his 1st Platoon Sergeant. I sometimes joke that I
ran his first company for him, Company "A."

People don't really
change much from the ages of 17 and 18, and I know this guy. I know him
to be a good decent guy. We lived and breathed an Honor Code in those
years. It wasn't just a rule. It was our way of life. Neither Donald,
nor any other cadet who graduated with us would ever lie, cheat, or
steal from a fellow cadet. These values became irreversibly intertwined
in the fabric of our personalities, of who we are.

Of the 99
guys (no girls in those days) in our class, there is not one who I know
who has a bad word to say about Donald Trump. Think of it. With all
the jealousies which arise in high school and thereafter, with all the
potential envy, not one of us has anything other than positive memories
of this man. How could we? He was an "A" student, a top athlete, and
as a leader, he was highly respected.

We never feared him, yet we never
wanted to disappoint him. He had our respect. He was never a bigot in
any way, shape or form. He only hates those who hate. Of course he
denounces the KKK

As to the discussion with the New York Times,
it is his choice to release the 'off the record' remarks.

However, if
he does, it opens the door for all political opposition to make that
demand for everyone, and that means that our press will never get those
'off the record' remarks which help them to understand the realities of
the campaign. Moreover, the idea that Donald Trump confessed some
alternate theory of his position is preposterous. Can anyone believe
that all those NY Times reporters are walking around knowing some deep
dark nasty secret about a guy who is seeking an endorsement?

The
Republican establishment is afraid of Donald Trump. Why? They are
afraid that he will lose to Hillary. They don't hate Donald. They hate
her. They are so fearful that they fail to see that by expanding the
base of voters for Trump, he is more likely to win.

Watching the
chorus of whiners, decriers, denigrators, and self-righteous put-down
experts from so many directions, from Mit Romney, to Megyn Kelly, Little
Mario, it has to make you wonder. Why? Why are so many people so
angry with Donald Trump, that they are lying, name calling, ridiculing,
and demeaning him as they do. Either they are afraid, or they know him
to be evil.

This is why I feel the need to speak out at this
time. I know this man. He is a lot of things, but he is not evil. He
is a decent honest guy who loves this country, and who is willing to
sacrifice so much of what is left of his life, because he knows that
this country needs to be fixed, and that it is going to require someone
who can do the job. He just doesn't see anything around him other than
political hacks, so he is willing to take this huge responsibility.

I'm not saying that he is the only one who can do the job. My point is simply as to his motivation and his goodness.

This next decade is going to be one of major changes. We all see the
climate changing, and the world food supply is getting lower. Our fish
stock around the world is running low. Oil prices will cause countries
to fail. The Middle East is beyond repair, and we have become weak and
ineffective around the world. Donald Trump sees the issues and knows
that he can assemble leaders who would have the best chance of fixing
things. This is why he is running. He does not need it for his own
aggrandizement. He doesn't need another big jet or to take up residence
in the White House. He just wants things to be fixed, and he knows
that the politicians won't fix anything.

I knew Donald Trump and
was close to him in our senior year in high school. I just want you to
know that there is nothing to fear from him. His character is as good
as it gets. He is a patriot, taking on a heroic task, and being thanked
by massive abuse.

If you want to see a true reflection of a man, look at his children. Need I say more?

Mike Huckabee:People are angry and they
feel like let’s give somebody a chance that’s disconnected from all
those people… The most glaring thing to come from that Romney speech is
he hit Trump for not releasing tax returns. Mitt Romney did not release
tax his own returns until six weeks before the elections in September of
2012. He hit him for having wealth. Now think about the irony of that.
Mitt Romney who inherited vast amounts of wealth hitting Donald Trump
for having inherited wealth.

Then he hit him for some of the businesses
that didn’t work out that Donald Trump founded. Bain Capital had 22% of
their businesses that didn’t work out. That went Chapter 11. It’s part
of the process if you’re a major entrepreneur. And then to hit him over
the tax returns and say I bet there’s stuff in there’ when that’s
exactly what Harry Reid tried to do to Mitt Romney back in 2012…

Tom Delay:It’s not stealing the nomination. It’s the process.
People need to realize that this is not an election of a president.
This is the nomination of a candidate. And there’s a process and there’s
rules and everybody has a fair shot at those rules. But in the end, the representatives, the delegates make the decision at the convention one way or another.
And if no candidate gets to the convention with the majority of the
votes then the delegates, duly elected to represent the people who have
voted, get to decide. It’s not stealing anything.

This is Real This happened a couple of days before Christmas in 1982. Me and a friend had just left Perris Valley Paracenter Airport to go to Collidge AZ for the Christmas / New Year's Boogie and when we got there we were informed of "The Bounce!" at Perris !(right after we left) Well, when we got back after New Year's, the "Crater" was still there!! This is the Photo! It looks like one I took but may be someone else's? The Guy was doing his second static line jump and "Went in!" His Family sue'd the DZ but the DZ got the Coroner's report which stated that his BAL (Blood Alcohol Level) was a (0.12) .08 being legally (DRUNK) to operate a motor vehicle and somehow he managed to go out to his car and take a couple of hits off a bottle of Jack before he went up! 'Signed statement before the jump...."Not under the influence of alcohol or drugs!" Look Close!

When I am organizing a Skydive, I don't care what color you are, what sex you are, what race you are, I only want to know one thing...."Can You Skydive good enough to complete the task at hand on this Skydive?"

“In the United States we have been able to alter the works
of William James, and others, into a more acceptable pattern, and to
place the tenants of Karl Marx, Pavlov, Lamarck, and the Data of
Dialectical Materialism into the textbooks of psychology, to such a
degree that anyone thoroughly studying psychology becomes at once a
candidate to accept the reasonableness of communism.” (Beria, pp. 53)

“You must work until religion is synonymous with insanity.
You must work until the officials of the city, county and state
governments will not think twice before they pounce on religious groups
as public enemies.” (Beria, pp. 60)

“As every chair of psychology in the United States is
occupied by a person in our connection, or who can be influenced by a
person in our connection, the consistent employment of such texts is
guaranteed. (Referring back to the quote on textbooks) They are given
the authoritative ring and they are carefully taught. (Beria, pp. 53)

“The tenants of rugged individualism, personal
determination, self-will, imagination, and personal creativeness are
alike in the masses antipathetic to the Good of the Greater State. These
willful and unaligned forces are no more than illnesses which bring
about disaffection, disunity, and at length the collapse of the group to
which the individual is attached.” (Beria, pp. 9)

Those are the words used by reporters who covered the New Orleans
campaign rally by leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
Friday evening to describe the leftist anti-Trump protesters who
disrupted the rally and the reactions of fed-up Trump supporters.

Nobody in my past was hugely famous, at least that I know of. I vaguely recall that an ancestor of mine who shipped over on the Mayflower
distinguished himself by falling out of the ship and having to get
fished out of the water. He might be notable, I guess, but hardly
famous. It is much more fun to think that I am a bloodline descendant of
Charlemagne. And in 1999, Joseph Chang gave me permission to think that way.

Chang was not a genealogist who had decided to make me his personal
project. Instead, he is a statistician at Yale who likes to think of
genealogy as a mathematical problem. When you draw your genealogy, you
make two lines from yourself back to each of your parents. Then you have
to draw two lines for each of them, back to your four grandparents. And
then eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great-grandparents, and so
on. But not so on for very long. If you go back to the time of
Charlemagne, forty generations or so, you should get to a generation of a
trillion ancestors. That’s about two thousand times more people than
existed on Earth when Charlemagne was alive.

After all, he is the man who saved the Union and who put slavery on the path to extinction.

There should be a qualifier…at the expense of the Constitution.

Lincoln’s crimes against the Constitution are not as well-known as they should be, but historians and legal scholars, even mainstream academics, have begun to take a hard look at the lasting legacy of Lincoln’s abuse of executive power, particularly in the last decade.

Lincoln was called a dictator and a tyrant by many Northern
opponents, was publicly castigated by former presidents Franklin Pierce
and James Buchanan and famous authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman
Melville, and barely squeaked by in the 1864 election even though the
war was in hand and he only had to win Northern votes. That should say
something about his reputation among his peers, but how did he “screw
up” America and the Constitution?

A friend’s encounter with a clergyman: His mission, he says, is
Social Justice. Our South Carolina governor, when she removed the
Confederate flag from the capitol grounds, had “a Jesus moment,” a
Divine Revelation of Social Justice. He hopes that others will have
such a Moment. What impressed me most about this leader of the faith
was not the arrogant complacency but the sheer stupidity.
–Clyde
Wilson

I did not believe more than I ever had, that the nation would unite
indefinitely behind any Southerner. One reason the country could not
rally behind a Southern president, I was convinced, was that the
metropolitan press of the Eastern Seaboard would never permit it. My
experience in office had confirmed this reaction. I was not thinking
just of the derisive articles about my style, my clothes, my manner, my
accent, and my family—although I admit I received enough of that kind of
treatment in my first few months as President to last a lifetime. I
was also thinking of a more deep-seated and far-reaching attitude—a
disdain for the South that seems to be woven into the fabric of Northern
experience. This is a subject that deserves a more profound
explanation than I can give it here—a subject that has never been
sufficiently examined.
–President Lyndon B. Johnson

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.